danielle ryan

Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…

In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.

Then the sea turned, and Denmark, Sweden, Finland passed beneath us, and night fell – the night that both began and ended over Russia. Now I’m in the new day’s blue north-west of Japan, waiting for Tokyo to rise as simply as the morning.

There are sights too beautiful to swallow. They stay on the rim of the eye; it cannot contain them.

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.